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Melvor Idle is an adventure RPG released in 2021. This casual indie game has garnered 14,277 positive reviews on Steam. The developer is unknown.
Overview
Melvor Idle is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Games by Malcs and published by Jagex Ltd. On Steam it has gathered 15,830 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Games by Malcs with publisher Jagex Ltd is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 760,000 to 1.8 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Melvor Idle can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
15,830
Positive
90%
Steam appid
1267910
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0760K to 1.8M
units (median: 1.3M)
≈ $4.3M to $10.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Melvor Idle at roughly 760,000 to 1.8 million copies, with a median around 1.3 million, derived from its 15,830 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $5.92Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $5.92 to $9.99, averaging $9.14 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $5.92 on 2026-03-09.
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
IdlerRPGCasualIndieSingleplayerAdventure2DMiningAutomationMinimalistFantasyCraftingCartoonMagicColorfulPoint & ClickCombatDemonsFishingEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Melvor Idle sold?
- indielist estimates Melvor Idle has sold between 759,840 and 1,772,960 units (median 1,266,400), derived from its 15,830 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Melvor Idle?
- Melvor Idle was developed by Games by Malcs and published by Jagex Ltd.
- When was Melvor Idle released?
- Melvor Idle was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Melvor Idle have on Steam?
- Melvor Idle has 15,830 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Melvor Idle sold?
- indielist estimates Melvor Idle has sold between 759,840 and 1,772,960 units (median 1,266,400), derived from its 15,830 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Melvor Idle?
- Melvor Idle was developed by Games by Malcs and published by Jagex Ltd.
- When was Melvor Idle released?
- Melvor Idle was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Melvor Idle have on Steam?
- Melvor Idle has 15,830 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Melvor Idle within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Games by Malcs's other releases and Jagex Ltd's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Melvor Idle sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Melvor Idle page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.